The Lunch Club at Home community project kicks off this Friday 5th June. We are looking forward to providing lunch and home-baking to senior members of the community in Dollar and Muckhart who are shielding, isolating or socially distancing at home.

Time and Space – is a confidential response service for people struggling emotionally in response to the coronavirus and its impact on them and their families, and who would like to talk with someone about their anxieties and concerns, now and post Covid-19.

We especially want to reach out to people for whom the threat or experience of the coronavirus has affected their mental health in ways they could not have possibly imagined or experienced.

Whether it is about how you can better manage the current restrictions of lockdown and close confinement of your own home conditions, restricted or loss of physical contact with family and friends, worries about money and benefits because of threat of redundancy and loss of income – we can offer listening support and information about additional support services for you and your family.

Time and Space is for anyone 16 years and over living in Stirling and Clackmannanshire. We welcome self-referrals. All it takes is an email or telephone call to Action in Mind, as follows:

A local resident has linked up with Wild Hearth Bakery, based in Comrie, in an initiative to enable great bread and pastries to be supplied to Muckhart residents without a delivery charge and at a reduced individual minimum order value. Wild Hearth offer direct-to-customer retail, giving us the opportunity to have delivery convenience and access to a great product.

The link below will take you to a document that explains the background to this initiative and how it will work.

Jo Wills has volunteered to act as the Co-op Leader for Muckhart and, once orders start to come through in number, the Coronation Hall will act as a central point for delivery and collection (with appropriate hygiene and social distancing measures in place). In the early stages, Wild Hearth will continue to deliver direct to door but at the reduced minimum coop member order value of £8.

Co-op deliveries to Muckhart will take place on a Tuesday and product and pricing information can be found below.

This post is to provide a brief update on the latest information regarding the H49 appeal process which is now well underway. Further documentation has been submitted onto the DPEA web-site and a Government Reporter has now been appointed.

Residents who submitted comments, previously, during the Planning Application process, will now have received a second letter from the Council. This letter advises that the Council, in their first letter, provided an incorrect email address, to be used to make further representations to the DPEA, as part of the appeal process. The correct email address has now been supplied and the ‘cut-off’ date for further representations to be made, consequently, has been extended to 11th May.

Those members of our community who have received this letter are free to submit further comments, as part of appeal process. However, what is not really clear, from both letters, is that any comments to be submitted should only cover new points or issues to be raised and should not repeat previous comments made, as these have already been submitted to the Reporter.

The advice on appeals (Planning Circular 4/2013) states the following:

As representations previously made and lodged with the planning authority by interested parties will be taken into account before a decision is reached on the appeal, there is no need or expectation for the same matters to be raised again with Scottish Ministers. Nevertheless, regulation 5(4) allows that interested parties may make further representations to Scottish Ministers in respect of the appeal within 14 days beginning with the date notice is given of the appeal.

Finally, MCC is coordinating and preparing a further submission, on behalf of our community, based on key issues and points raised in Springfield’s ‘Grounds for Appeal’ document which we will be countering.

This post is just to keep everyone in our community aware of the current status of the formal Planning Appeal, submitted by Springfield, relating to site H49.

Further to the submission by Springfield of a formal appeal, multiple documents have now been uploaded onto the Planning and Environment Appeals Division (DPEA) website. However, currently, the case is indicated as ‘ Not yet ready for allocation to reporter’, although this is likely to change, moving forward. The case number is: PPA-150-2008 (Planning Permission Appeal).

MCC has concerns about what has, and what has not, been posted, to date, and is seeking clarification, on a number of matters, with the parties involved.

It is still early days in the overall appeal process, in particular, given the current situation regarding COVID-19. However, we anticipate more information on the next steps will come forward, once a Reporter has been appointed.

Please be aware, if you’re planning to travel to Dollar over the next few days, for essential shopping or to collect a prescription, that an Emergency Road Closure is in place to carry out Scottish Water repairs.

MCNABB STREET, DOLLAR

NOTICE OF EMERGENCY PROHIBITION OF DRIVING,

PARKING AND LOADING ORDER 2020

Clackmannanshire Council

Kilncraigs

Greenside Street

Alloa, FK10 1EB SCHEDULE

List of Roads

Section of road over which an emergency prohibition of driving, parking and loading is applicable from 0800 hours on Monday 6 April 2020 until 1900 hours on Thursday 9 April 2020.

McNabb Street, Dollar

From its junction with A91 Bridge Street northwards for a distance of 20 metres or thereby.

In an effort to support those members of our community who are currently self-isolating, due to the COVID-19 coronavirus, Muckhart Community Council fully endorses and supports the Church’s Muckhart Lend a Hand initiative.

If you would like to help and support those members of our community, less able to cope with the current situation, then please complete and submit the on-line Support Form.

With the ongoing escalation of the COVID-19 virus, and the undoubted impact it will have on our community, MCC is looking at ways in which we can help to support local initiatives focussed on helping the more vulnerable residents within our community.

We hope soon to be providing a ‘registration facility’ on the MCC web-site where local volunteers can sign-up to offer their support on-line and plan to co-ordinate these efforts with other groups and initiatives within the community. We are also considering providing an on-line ‘help request’ facility, to be used by any residents who may require support, and how best to co-ordinate any support requests that may come in.

In the meantime, the CTSi has provided a community health guide (please see below) of services and organisations who might be able to provide some sort of assistance within the constraints of the Government and NHS guidelines.